'I’m Madeleine McCann': Student goes viral after making 'joke'

A UK university student has made headlines after claiming to friends that she was missing girl, Madeleine McCann.

Harriet Brookes posted the “joke” on a private Facebook group chat, writing that a spot on her right eye and leg “proved” she was Madeleine, who disappeared without a trace while on a family holiday to Portugal in 2007.

Images of the chat leaked on Twitter show the “evidence” Ms Brookes shared with friends, and her message: “I’m Madeleine McCann and I don’t know what to do with myself”.